Do you dry your cats.

[Mamma22cats]

Do you dry your cats off with a towel when they've been out in the rain? I do mine and she seems to quite like it, I wondered if this was normal?

My old cat used to love being dried with a towel. I made it a kind of dry/massage thing where I lightly kneaded her shoulders and massaged the rest, and she really enjoyed it.

Didn't so much like her paws being wiped, but she tolerated it, and if it wasn't too wet and muddy I just used to put kitchen roll down for her to walk on, and that mostly did the trick.

If I tried that , I’d have my arms shredded and a good hiss too. I’ve never dried a cat.

When DS was about five or six I saw him take the in-use tea towel out of the kitchen, dry the cat (who loved it), then put the tea towel back in the kitchen. Luckily I intercepted the tea towel before it got used for the crockery.

Yes, I give mine a few strokes with a piece of kitchen roll, soak up the drips on the huge fluffy tail and get into the long between-toebean hair if I can. Saves wet mud and grit from being deposited all round the house and warms them up.

Only when he was very, very wet.
But with a towel, as he seemed a bit traumatised after the first time in the spin dryer!

No, I do not dry any cats.

I do not dry my cats because I do not have any cats. Neither do I dry other people's cats.

No I don't, they dry off quick because they lick themselves anyway.

I wouldn’t get near either of my cats with a towel!

No. I value my life.

No, because it's a moot point. They have indoor toilet facilities and no cat door so can only go out when we open the back door and then only as far as the back yard. That's too built-up for them to escape from. If the rain starts, they come in, the tortie especially grumbling with Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells outrage. Because we did it on purpose and who does she complain to? 😁

We dry ours with a towel and she loves it

Our elderly cat likes to dry herself on our duvet. In her younger days she would have ripped your face off if you'd tried to wrap her in a towel or even wiped her with it, but these days she'd just growl and whine. It would really stress her out and I wouldn't put her through it. Thankfully she's rarely out in the rain these days.
Of our 2 young cats, one would tear you to shreds if you tried but the other is very chilled and quite likes being turned into a purrito. The towel-phobic cat is a homebody and is always close enough to dart back in if it starts raining. The cuddly cat comes in soaking every time it's rained as he's often a good way away over the fields, but it's rare the timings work out for us to spot him coming in and dry him off. He tends to curl up in his bed or cat tree to dry off however, so it isn't a big problem.

I have a super-absorbent mat next to the cat flap that they have to walk over as they come in, which has massively reduced the muddy paw prints.

Yes! A previous cat I had learned he liked being dried so when I'd dry him, he would go out and get wet again and demand another drying session! 😂Current kitty enjoys it, I think he may go the same way!

Mine refuse to be dried, but love drying themselves by rolling around in my bed.
Fuzzy wee cretins.

Ours likes to dry his feet by walking across every windowsill and worktop he can reach before settling on the bed (usually my pillow) to dry off and have a really thorough groom 🙄 He does get his mouth wiped if he comes to bed smelling of cat food though 🤢 there's a box of tissues on the bedside table just for that purpose!

Yes my boy loves it but it has to be kitchen roll, I think a towel scares him, he purrs so much when he’s being dried

Yes - Finn loves a rub down
Wet here today and Im not feeling well - he always senses that and sits with me

Our cats must be related, our ‘Princess’ does the same.

He loves it. Sometimes goes out again in order to have more.

Well it's clearly normal or most of you and your cats aren't. But seems like the majority of us dry our kittys unless you know it won't be worth your life. I'll be interested to see when our new little kitty is allowed out whether she too likes to be dried.

Yes we do. DCat has her own towel and we have a song we sing when we dry her that we sing along to the tune of Copacabana by Barry Manilow. Appreciate we need to get out more!

I use an old shabby hand towel on my cat Herbie.
He tends to go straight to his food bowl when he comes in so if I put a few dreamies in it he will happily let me dry him while he eats dreamies!
Experience has taught me that without dreamies, he's not so cooperative!

Both of mine like getting a cozzie dryzzie which is our name for a rub down with the teatowel that lives on the radiator for that purpose. But only after being asked 'who's a soggy moggy '

Of course.

My bonkers cat loves the rain - always goes out when she hears it's tipping down. Then she realised she loves being dried off too so she spends wet afternoons going out, getting wet, coming in to be dried warmed cuddled and then goes out again....and the cycle continues

Haha I always ask mine the same!